We offer an outstanding selection of gourmet foods and gifts
produced in Virginia. We design unique Virginia gift baskets and boxes.
They make great gifts for special occasions such as Thanksgiving,
Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, Easter, Mother's Day,
Memorial Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, and Birthdays.
They make thoughtful Get Well, Thank You, and Housewarming gifts
or they can be enjoyed for any reason at all.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Sept.13 is National Peanut Day

National Peanut Day is the peanuttiest of days. FYI, peanuts are not nuts. They are "legumes", like peas, beans, and lentils.

Peanuts are one of America's favorite snack foods. Americans consume more than 6 pounds of peanuts and peanut products each year," according to the American Peanut Council Peanuts are more than just a snack food. Peanuts are the main ingredient in peanut butter. Peanuts star in a variety of recipes, and is a topping for countless foods and desserts. Many Chinese recipes use peanuts in main menu items. Peanuts once took the rap as a not so healthy food. More recent research suggests that peanuts can reduce cardiovascular disease and lower triglycerides in the body. Peanuts are high in protein and fiber and are now believed to help curb hunger, and therefore help in diet control.Other Peanuttiest of days of the year:National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day on April 2and.National Peanut Butter Lover's Day on March 1st

Celebrate National Peanut Day by eating peanuts wherever and whenever you can during that day. Eating peanut butter counts, too.

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The Virginia Marketplace offers our customers a way to find, try for the first time, or send as gifts an exciting assortment of high quality products from our home state of Virginia. You'll find traditional Virginia foods as well as new and unusual tastes. Almost all of our products have earned the Virginia's Finest trademark distinction of quality. Some have received awards for taste or gift packaging. Some have been featured on Rachel Ray's Pick of the Day and Food Network's Food Finds.
Shop with us for the finest foods and gifts made in Virginia.... Virginia gourmet peanuts, Smithfield hams, Chesapeake Bay seafood soups, seafood dips, fine desserts, food gifts, and more to come.
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